The one-time Maple Leaf, now a broadcaster, was on his second round of chemotherapy for stage 3 colon cancer, and the effects were so severe that he told his wife, Diana, he couldn’t do it anymore. “We had a moment, which probably lasted 30 minutes where all we did was cry,” Eddie Olczyk said. Even if I knew what the end result was going to be, you play to the end. “You feel less, you feel weak, you feel like you’ve let everybody down — family, friends, employers,” Olczyk said. While announcing he was cancer-free, Olczyk said “we did it” because of the support all around him.

Source: thestar November 02, 2019 23:15 UTC